Caption Contest: Best Buy FTW

A Twitterer documents the demise of one big box via the burn of another.

Tim: "And thus the 2009 FatWallet suicide craze began."Josh F: "First!"Joe: "Yeah, but what about the Palm store?"Laura: "So, you're telling me I have to pay full price for this copy of Final Destination IV? FINE."Richard: "...And we finally have proof you never actually shopped there anyway."Paul: "We've also stopped matching Buy More prices ever since that silly 3D episode."Jacob: "...And we're therefore rebranding to Kinda the Best Buy.'"Ross: "For $100, the Geek Squad has offered to read these aloud to you. For an extra $50, they'll stop themselves from giggling through the word 'unfortunate.'"Nilay: "Also, it's okay to start liking 'Just What I Needed' again."Sean: "We will, however, attempt to make the Circuit City faithful feel right at home with some new bait and switch tactics of our own."Don: "Circuit City employees will be hired based on their technical knowledge, communication skills, and rapping ability."

RIP, CompUSA: 1984 - 2008Days after we first reported that CompUSA could be shutting down for good very, very soon, everybody is reporting that the beleaguered big box retailer has been sold to Gordon Brothers Group for liquidation.

Best Buy snaps up 17 CompUSA leasesApparently, not only is CompUSA rising from the dead like a horrific, zombified corpse, but now its guts are getting bought up and replaced by another retail behemoth.